Tuesday’s TV: Heston’s Mission Impossible

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Heston Blumenthal is the latest top chef to try to improve airline food, but
there are one or two intractable problems that he needs to overcome first.
There are no kitchens, no pans, no sharp knives and no naked flames in the
air. To make matters worse, meat and fish reheated in aircraft ovens ends up
overcooked and dried out, and vegetables have a way of turning into mush. On
top of all that, cabin pressure and low humidity mean that passengers’
perception of taste at altitude is reduced. But Blumenthal has never been